An 1880 piece named for these objects draws on its composer’s operetta The Queen’s Lace Handkerchief for the slow theme “C, F, E, D” that opens its introduction. A phenomenally popular Irish song named for one of these objects is the basis for the last of Heinrich Ernst’s Six Polyphonic Studies for solo violin. The best-known piano miniature from the collection Woodland Sketches by Edward MacDowell is named for one of these objects. A Johann Strauss Junior waltz is titled for [these objects] from the South. Each of four suitors present one of these objects to Princess Aurora in a namesake “adagio” from Tchaikovsky’s ballet Sleeping Beauty. For 10 points, what type of flower names a “Kavalier” in the title of a comic opera by Richard Strauss? ■END■
ANSWER: roses [accept Rosen aus dem Süden or Roses from the South; accept The Last Rose of Summer; accept To a Wild Rose; accept “Rose Adagio”; accept Der Rosenkavalier or The Knight of the Rose or The Rose-Bearer; prompt on flower]
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